Three Texans filed a lawsuit this afternoon against Microsoft over the issues plaguing Xbox Live during the past couple weeks. They allege that the outages constitute a breach of contract on the part of Microsoft. Microsoft has just learned of the lawsuit today and is not yet commenting on the situation. Hit the link for the article and a link to the PDF of the complaint.
Link: Xbox Live holiday outages prompts class action lawsuit [Via Kotaku]
Criterion Games has announced that they’re going to add some features to the Burnout Paradise demo on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. According to their site, they will increase the number of allowed players in a game from four to eight. In addition, they’ll be adding 13 new Freeburn Challenges. The changes will be taking place on their servers between now and January 14th. Sounds like I’ll have to fire it up again.
Link: Demo Supporting Up To 8 Players Online [Via Joystiq]
According to Primotech, the answer is yes. They claim to have heard from a “source close to Microsoft” that a systematic denial-of-service attack was the cause of Xbox Live’s woes over the past few weeks. Hit the link for the full details.
Update: The guys over at Engadget are claiming that they have received, “conclusive inside information from a trusted source” that Xbox Live’s problems were not related to a malicious attack. Click here to read their post.
Link: Recent Xbox Live Issues May Be Result of Attack [Via Kotaku]
Looks like we will be getting a free XBLA Game as compensation for the issues experienced recently on Xbox Live. There aren’t many details at this time, but we should expect to hear something more soon.
Update: I should have posted the letter in the first place, but I was in a hurry. Here it is:
Dear Xbox LIVE Members:
During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.
As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.
At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.
Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!
Sincerely,
Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Today, Microsoft announced the sales figures for the Xbox 360 console and Halo 3. According to the post on Team Xbox, Microsoft has sold 17.7 million Xbox 360 consoles and 8.1 million copies of Halo 3. Those are some pretty impressive numbers. Hit the link for a couple more numbers.
Over at CVG, they have posted the first ever multiplayer screenshots from Halo Wars. The screens look pretty impressive and I can’t help but get a little anxious to get my hands on this game. This is definitely one of the coolest titles to look forward to in 2008. One of the shots even has some sweet Red vs Blue action going on. Hit the link for all the screens.
Link: Halo Wars: First multiplayer shots [Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]
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